Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-13
BLAINE AND FORAKER.
The Ohio Mans Severe Arraisnment of
James G.'s Veracity.

James G.'s Veracity.
Governor Foraker, in his speech be-
fore some of his Ohio constituents, WAS
led, in his desire to make points
against 7 resident Cleveland. into what
was really q severe arraignment Of
Mr.. Blaine's political yeracity. In
order to show that the Democratic
President is responsible for new out
break of disloyal feeling in the South.
which the Ohio Governor pictures rs
existing to-day, he allowed himself to
draw delightful sketch of the quiet
loyalty that had grown UP in the
Southern States during the Republican
Administrations ct Washington. But
on November Is. 1884. before TIE in
auguration of President Cleveland.
MIR. Blaine, smzrting under his finally
acknowledged defeat. made "a speech
at Augusta, Ne, outlining the future
course of the Republican party, which
amounted practically to fitting it out
with a supply of new bloody shirts.
To show the difference in the pictures
of the South as it was in 1884 drawn
by Foraker and Blaine, we bring some
of their sentences together:
FORAKER BLAINE.
Tire war between the Flew persons in the
North and South hadNorth realize how COM
been ended twentYlpletely the chiefs OF the
years when he Recommendation WELD the pc
President. During that lttical power which has
thine the prejudice that IuTiumphed in the late
had led TO it had almost selection It Is
implicitly faded away. a still more significant
and both at the SouthEfact that in those States
amd at the North it was no man who was loyal
difficult to find any ITO the Union, no matter
trace of the bitterness how strong Democrat
that had been engen5ne may be, has the
deEed by the great con- slightest chance OF 20
fiict. The people OF the lItical promotion
South had come to see
and ,concede the error
of their cause On all
sides, especially among
the ex-soldiers of the
COnfederacy, there was
IA growing feeling OF pro-
found thankfulneSS that
they had been beaten in
battle, and that, a
;consequ ence, slavery
had been destroyed andl
they had been saved to
be part and TO enjoy
the blessings of the
Union. The results OF
the war were, in short,
coming to be every
where recognized and
accepted. and upon the
basis of their accept
ance the sections were
becoming more securely
bound together in union
than they had ever beenl
before
IT was believed that The colored popula
the day was not far dis ton, almost to a man
tant when the South, desire TO support the
recognizing the justice Republican party; but
and equity that We're by a system OF cruel in
involved, would, with a timidat,on, and by vic
creditable pride in do Hence and murder
ing what was right ac- wherever violence anC
cord TO even the most murder are thought
humble colored man the necessary, they are alb
full enjoyment, at the solutely deprived OF al
ballot-boX and other political power
WISE OF all the rightslIt 1.-THE question OF pc
guaranteed by the Con litical inequality be
stitution. comes the primal Ques
ton of American man
hood.
Whether Governor Foraker has for.
gotten all about the Augusta speech o.
Mr.. Blaine, or whether his zeal as a
Sherman man now leads him to hasten
to point out the fallacies of his former
chief, we shall not attempt to decide